Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-06-01
MiddlebreOk Letter.

Mr.. VIM. Fulwider, who has been work.
ing for ]. B. Fauver of this place for a
number of years, left Friday week to take
charge Of a job in the city of Coshocton,
Ohio. 1t looks badly that all the young
men are forced to leave this State because
of a scarcity of work. But such is the case.
Mr.. John Dougherty, another young man
of this place, has also gone to the same
city, and took charge of a job of work. We
wish these young men great success, and
trust they will never regret the step they
have taken, fer there is poor prospect of any
boom in Virginia so long as the State debt
question agitates the financial centres. The
Craigsville correspondent gives some good
advice in last weeks issue in regard to pull
ing off coats and going 10 work and stop
talking of the hard times, &c. But here
let US see how is a man to pull his coat and
go to work when there is no work to do
The steam-factories north, east and west
are supplying the southern trade with al
NEST everything needed to carry on any
branch of business. The day has almost
arrived when the mechanics will have to
work tourney work" in these factories.
shingle' business. They to-day can see
theirs to do, slipping from their grasp in
hundred different ways. The cry is, sem
courage home industry" but are the masses
of the people doing it? No. Our money is
all sent up north out west, and down east
tospay for wagons, buggies, carriages, plows,
harrows, harness, fertilizers, and, in fact,
there is nothing hardly, but what the south
ern people have discontinued to make
They trust to the factories of other States
to do it for them.' What is to hinder the
southern people from using their raw Hla-
terials? But instead, the manufacturers
from other States come in and buy them,
ship them off, manufacture the goods, send
them back, and still make a large profit on
them. There IS in my opinion not much of
chance for young man in Virginia to
ever make anything more than his ''vituals
and clothes unless he has rich ancestry to
aid him, and the sooner the young men
clear out to other States where wages are
good and work plenty, the sooner they
benefit themselves. Whilst we love old
Virginia for her good healthful climate, her
grand towering mountains, and her pleas
ant green valleys and sloping hills, her
many magnificent farms, &C., yet we see
slim chances for the rising young men of to,
day. For instance, few years since a
young man clerking in a store here conclud-
ed lie would try another State. He went
to Illinois, from there to California, where
to day he is getting $75 per month, while
here he got $500; quite a change, and just
such places as these is where young man
should go to ''pull his coat" He gets paid
for it there. If there are favors to be shown
in Old Virginia, as rule they are seldom
shown to poor boy who is buffetting the
waves of opposition and trying to rise to a
higher plane. But all these things must
be, fer so it seems.
The health of this community is good as
the doctors horses look fat and sleek, and
don't show much riding. There is some
talk of marriage. soon in the village
| VIM. B. Glover has commenced to build
another barn on the same foundation of the
one that was burned not long since. Mr..
| Glover is stirring man and deserves the
assistance of the community.
QUIDNUNC.